The Berlin Wall
by Frederick Taylor | 
The Candy Bombers
by Andrei Cherny | 
Daring Young Men
by Richard Reeves | 
The Cold War
by Martin Walker | 
One Minute to Midnight
by Michael Dobbs | 
The Cold War
by John Lewis Gaddis | 
Before The Deluge
by Otto Friedrich | 
Stasiland
by Anna Funder |
Travellers in the Third Reich
by Julia Boyd | 
Arsenals of Folly
by Richard Rhodes |
Germany
by Neil MacGregor | 
Weimar Germany
by Eric D. Weitz |
Weimar Culture
by Peter Gay | 
Cold War
by Jeremy Isaacs |
Six Months in 1945
by Michael Dobbs | 
A People's History Of The United States
by Howard Zinn | 
Fire and Fury
by Michael Wolff | 
America
by Dinesh D'Souza | 
Unfreedom of the Press
by Mark R. Levin | 
A Warning
by Anonymous |
A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War-and its lessons for today."History at its best." -Zbigniew Brzezinski"Gripping, well researched, and thought-provoking, with many lessons for today." -Henry Kissinger"Captures the drama [with] the 'You are there' storytelling skills of a journalist and the analytical skills of the political scientist." - General Brent ScowcroftIn June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called it "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about.Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping the Cold War-and more perilous. For the first time in history, American and Soviet fighting men and tanks stood arrayed against each other, only yards apart. One mistake, one overzealous commander-and the trip wire would be sprung for a war that would go nuclear in a heartbeat. On one side was a young, untested U.S. president still reeling from the Bay of Pigs disaster. On the other, a Soviet premier hemmed in by the Chinese, the East Germans, and hard-liners in his own government. Neither really understood the other, both tried cynically to manipulate events. And so, week by week, the dangers grew.Based on a wealth of new documents and interviews, filled with fresh- sometimes startling-insights, written with immediacy and drama, Berlin 1961 is a masterly look at key events of the twentieth century, with powerful applications to these early years of the twenty- first.